Out in the open! A document on cooperation between the United States and the Third Reich has been declassified

Published at: 20/12/2024 01:51 PM

As reported to the Russian Federation at the end of April 1943 by Soviet Foreign Intelligence resident in Stockholm, Boris Ribkin, the proposal for such commercialization to the Germans was made by a native of Moscow, Prince Sergey Obolensky, who was then working in the Office of Strategic Services of the United States, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Sputnik details that in mid-1943, the United States allied with the USSR in the coalition against Nazi Germany and with the help of its special services, was secretly preparing the sale of strategically important resources to the Third Reich, which was accumulating its forces for the battle of Kursk.

“At the end of March, Prince Obolenski presented himself to Svatkovski, an employee of the German Chamber of Commerce, with the proposal to organize an exchange of some goods between the United States and Germany through front men,” Ribkin wrote.

It was about selling platinum and industrial diamonds to the Nazis in exchange for chemicals that Americans needed.

“On the American side, First Secretary Carlson is handling the case, and on the German side, Berlin has assigned the case to Ottokar von Knieriem, a local representative of the Bank of Dresden,” Ribkin said.

As a result of the negotiations, “the Americans made an offer that they could immediately provide the Germans with platinum (...) and they demanded a nomenclature of chemicals with which the Germans could coat the platinum,” the Soviet resident reported.

Mazo News Team